Despite lack of local support, families of children with atypical learning/social/physical/emotional needs are choosing home education. These families are desperate for community. Together we can strengthen them with #SPEDStrong Tribes

SPED Homeschool is a 501.c.3 nonprofit serving the needs of the
specialized education homeschooling community.

The overall goal of SPED Homeschool is to increase access to
resources, support, and training for families who homeschool children
with specialized educational needs to "Help children succeed
through parent-directed home education."

Our new #SPEDStrong Tribes campaign will further our reach by filling
one of the biggest needs in our community - local support.

Hear what our online support group families have to say about
this need:

"I feel my child doesn’t fit anywhere. In fact we constantly
hear those words, 'your child is not a fit for this program.'
Whether it be public school, homeschool groups and co-ops, private school or other community programs. I know how
that hurts me, but I cannot imagine how it affects my 14 year old
son who has autism."

"I have attended some co-op meetings and looked into joining
a few but at those meetings all I kept hearing was how smart the
kids were in that particular program and how advanced they were in
academics. I knew immediately that we wouldn’t fit in. Homeschooling
is definitely a calling and it feels like your family is on this
journey alone...I was recently venting to a friend about homeschool
and how difficult it can be and I was told that I needed to “find my
tribe.” What tribe? There is no tribe for special needs children and
we don’t fit into the “homeschool” tribe."

Similar stories to the ones shared about come into our online
support group every day.

#SPEDStrong Tribes will fill this need by
bringing together programs already working in smaller pockets of our
community through a comprehensive package anyone can use to create a
local support group. Using proven means to help our families where
they need the most support, this comprehensive package will
strengthen families and help them stay strong as they homeschool
their children.

Donations towards this campaign will be used to compile this
comprehensive program, field test it, and launch these groups into
local communities in 2019.

We need your help to meet this need. How? Here are some ways
you can help.

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We can't wait to support the specialized education homeschooling
community through local groups, and neither can they.

Hear the hopes and dreams our online support group families
have shared with us about #SPEDStrong Tribes:

"If SPED starts a support group, it will be great ! It makes us
believe that there are still some place that my daughter can fit
in and be hugged with LOVE."

"I remember how thankful I was to find the Sped group, this
was my community...My tribe is this community. I cannot wait to have
a local “tribe.” #spedstrong"

Why are we at SPED Homeschool so passionate about seeing this
program work? Because most of our team members have
similar stories to those we shared above. Supportive communities
for our families have been lacking since the rise of the
homeschooling movement. But, we are passionate about changing
that statistic.

Thank you for partnering with SPED Homeschool to build
stronger SPED homeschooling families! Together we can make these
families #SPEDStrong! #GivingTuesday

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